Ceiling tiles are reflected in flood water in the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel in New York City showing the level of disruption to the public transport system caused by superstorm Sandy. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images

As New York slowly gets back to normal, commuters sit in a massive traffic jam on the Long Island Expressway as they attempt to get to work following the devastation of the public transport system in New York City, caused by superstorm Sandy. Photograph: Jason DeCrow/AP

Why did the llama cross the road? In this barren landscape, near the salt flat of Tolillar, 3,800 metres above sea level, you have to assume it just wanted to go to the other side. Photograph: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters

Dog walker Maureen Monteath, from Bathgate, walks her dog across the Bathgate Pyramids, West Lothian, which are currently adorned with giant poppies to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Poppy appeal. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Luke, 28 years old from London, smokes cannabis in a coffee shop in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Coffee shops in the Dutch captial will remain open to tourists after its mayor, Eberhard van der Laan, decided that tourists will not be banned from the 220 coffee shops in Amsterdam where marijuana are openly sold and consumed. Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images

Stepping out of the shadows. Andy Murray walks on court to play his match against Poland's Jerzy Janowicz during day four of the BNP Paribas Masters at Palais Omnisports de Bercy in Paris, France. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images

Barack Obama makes the most of the last couple of days of campaigning before the election, as he speaks during a campaign rally at Austin Straubel international airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Greek editor Costas Vaxevanis make a statement outside an Athens courthouse. Lawyers launched their defence of the prominent journalist charged with breaking private data rules, after he published the names of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks believed to be holding Swiss bank accounts. Photograph: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters

Tourists riding on elephants watch a one-horned rhinoceros inside the Kaziranga national park in Assam, India. After two devastating waves of floods, the park which is home to the rhinoceros was reopened for tourists today. Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP

Forensic officers search the scene on the M1 motorway where prison officer David Black was shot as he drove near the town of Lurgan, Northern Ireland. Black was killed when he drove into a hail of bullets and crashed off the motorway at high speed, in an attack blamed by politicians on militant nationalists. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

A pink ribbon tied to a gate denotes the continuing search for missing five-year-old April Jones in Machynlleth, Wales. Coral and Paul Jones, April's parents, have thanked the public for their kind words and sentiments, which they say have provided support in the month since her abduction. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Commuters wait in line to board buses into Manhattan from Brooklyn. The queue stretched twice around the arena and commuters reported waiting times of one to three hours to get on a bus. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP
Meanwhile in New Jersey, people queued at gas stations holding jerry cans. Millions are still without power or water, and the aftermath continues to effect business and daily life throughout much of the eastern seaboard. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Benedictine nuns smile during a procession in honour of the late nun Saint Hildegard von Bingen in Rüedesheim, central Germany. Hildegard von Bingen was among other things a writer, composer and philosopher. She was named doctor of the church by Pope Bendict XVI in October. Photograph: Thomas Lohnes/AP

Hindu women get henna applied on their hands on the eve of of Hindu festival Karwa Chauth in Jammu, India. The traditional Hindu festival, celebrated in northern India, where married women fast for one whole day and offer prayers to the moon for the welfare, prosperity and longevity of their husbands. Photograph: Channi Anand/AP

Golfer Tiger Woods looks uncomfortable in the spotlight at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Woods is in the city-state to attend golf clinics aimed at promoting and inspiring young golfers from the Singapore Sports School. Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

After spending the past few days dealing with the response to superstorm Sandy, Barack Obama boards Air Force One to get back on the presidential campaign trail in Wisconsin, Colorado and Nevada. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

The Moscow City complex with the Mercury City tower, right, under construction. Moscow is reclaiming the distinction of having Europe's tallest building after losing the crown for a few months to London. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP

Bosnian Croats walk uphill past a Muslim cemetery on their way to the Catholic cemetery to visit graves of their relatives in the Bosnian town of Tuzla, north of Sarajevo on All Saints' Day. Photograph: Amel Emric/AP

Several unemployed people march on a street of the old city holding up two coffins of cardboard simulating the funeral of their jobs during All Saints; Day, in Pamplona, northern Spain. Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP

NYPD police officers stand on top of the devastated Rockaway beach boardwalk wrecked by superstorm Sandy in the Queens borough of New York this morning. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Shopping carts full of food damaged by Sandy are disposed at the Fairway supermarket in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Photographs: Seth Wenig/AP

Passengers exit a downtown-bound subway train in New York's Times Square. The city moved closer to resuming its frenetic pace by resuming its vital subways, three days after a superstorm, but neighbouring New Jersey was stunned by miles of coastal devastation and the news that of thousands of people in one city are still stranded by increasingly fetid flood waters. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP

Hillary Clinton looks very excited as she disembarks from her plane at Tirana Rinas airport in Albania. Clinton is on the last leg of her Balkans tour, where she is expected to urge opposing political sides to work together to push through reforms demanded by Brussels. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AP

Australian Geoff Ogilvy and his caddie walk between bunkers on the ninth hole, during the first round of the WGC HSBC Champions at the Mission Hills Resort in Shenzhen, China. Photograph: Andrew Redington/Getty Images

New York unplugged. Downtown New York city during the blackout caused by superstorm Sandy. The photographer placed his camera on a tripod and used exposures of between 30 seconds to 1 minute to get the required effect. Photograph: Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features

The Jiayang train, one of the last steam trains that runs on a narrow gauge railway, Sichuan province, China. Owned by a local coal mine, the train has run on this 20km railway tracks for 53 years. Photograph: Quirky China News/Rex Features

One travels by public transport these days. Prince Charles walks down the stairs of a London Routemaster bus during a fundraising tour by the British Legion for the Poppy Appeal. Photograph: Geoff Pugh/AFP/Getty Images

How long is he expecting to queue for? A man dressed as Santa Claus sits in the street with others as they wait for the release of the new iPad mini, in front of the Apple Store, Ginza in Tokyo. Photograph: Toru Hanai/Reuters

The destruction of Homs, Syria. Syrian warplanes fired missiles at opposition strongholds around Damascus and in the north as Turkey, a key backer of the anti-regime rebels, appeared to distance itself from an earlier call to impose a no-fly zone. Photograph: AP

A man is treated for wounds after a jet flown by Syrian government forces attacked the Karm al-Aser neighborhood in eastern Aleppo. There has been an unprecedented surge in air strikes carried out by Syrian forces this week. Photograph: Javier Manzano/AFP/Getty Images

Dancers from Stars of the New York City Ballet perform Apollo at the Mella theatre in Havana, Cuba. Hundreds of dancers and choreographers have gathered in Cuba for the 23rd International Ballet festival. Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

Superstorm Sandy not only caused much destruction but has also unearthed some human remains. A tent protects the skeletal remains of at least two individuals, which were unearthed when a 100-year-old oak tree fell on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut after storm. The remains likely belonged to a victim of yellow fever or smallpox, who might have been buried between 1799 and 1821. Photograph: Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters

Smoke rises after an explosion that severely damaged an industrial building in eastern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. At least 10 people were killed when a fuel truck crashed into a flyover triggering the explosion that caused the collapse of the building. Photograph: Reuters

Maybe not the most comfortable of outfits for this model as she presents a creation by Chinese designer Xu Ming for a haute couture collection at China fashion week in Beijing. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters

A handful of puggle. Bo, a 55-day-old baby Echidna, or a puggle as they are often known, rests in the hands of a vet nurse at Taronga zoo in Sydney, Australia. The puggle was bought to the zoo after being found by itself on a walking track north of Sydney and will be fed by hand until it is weaned at about six months. Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters